Daily Archives: May 31, 2006

Yay! 0

I have a 1GB stick of memory coming second day UPS. W00t!

Now all I need is a putty knife to open my Mac.

And to watch the demonstration video a bunch more times.

I was going to get a super-high-quality module from Crucial, but those are so darn expensive ($150 from NewEgg with shipping). I got my module for $120 with shipping from OWC. And OWC has those handy videos that show you exactly how to discombobulate your computer to get at the memory slots (no small feat, where the Mini is concerned).

I deserve this memory. My mom said she’d pay for it if I passed my classes, and I did. So there. I’m going to have such a speedy machine!!!

Well, I already have a speedy machine, but now I’ll be able to run a whole bunch of programs at once and have it stay speedy!

Craigslist 2

I’ve been looking for jobs all day today (well, only for like an hour since I got back from work, but still).

I found some nice jobs on Craigslist, but so many of them require a B.A.

I’m glad I’m going to college.

I submitted my passport application today, so in 6-8 weeks I’ll maybe have a passport.

I’m about to talk to this guy TJ from Grants Pass. He seemed cool when I saw his profile, and didn’t delete him…mostly because he had a website. Only cool people have websites.

I don’t like his use of popups and I feel the design is difficult to navigate, but the older iteration of his site was cool. It was down due to a domain renewal hiccup, but it’s back now. It’s cruxpd.com.

I wonder when my domain will need to be renewed..I think it’s this year. Hmm…nope, it’s next year it needs to be renewed. I want to blow $200 and renew it for ten years. That would be sweet, and I would save a bunch of money in the long run. But that’s not exactly at the top of my priority list now.

So yeah. I gave notice.

The thing that really helped me was this technique that I read about in my speech book called visualization, where you picture the whole process going well. And it did go well, I guess. My last day is the 16th.

Unfortunately, I called the cable company and my Internet will get shut off on the 7th. So…I’m going to go a whole WEEK without high-speed Internet.

Save me!

At least it’s over. Now I only have two items on my to-do list sticky note: get an airbag, and sub at the plant this weekend. Weird. I should restart into Windows so I can use my voice-rec to chat with TJ. Farewell, OSX. Oh wait…I deleted my Windows partition. Damn it. I NEED that RAM upgrade. I’m going to get one stick (I need two of matched sizes for optimal performance). Oh hell, I might as well get both and just charge them on my credit card. Is that a bad plan? Yes.

I must not upgrade my RAM until I get a new job. But I can’t deal with this lackluster performance…crap. Okay, I’ll buy one stick. That will double my memory and make my programs faster, but video playback will be impaired because I won’t be running in dual channel mode (for that I need another identical stick). Cool. Time to head over to OWC.com.

I did it. 0

I did it.

Whenever my courage failed me, I called my voicemail and listened to that message the Kelly and Becky and Christen left me.

I’m leaving on the 16th.